Early in the morning, with the continuous roar of the machine outside the house, accompanied by the noise of the loudspeaker broadcast, an old man was awakened from his sleep. These noises came from the renovation of Longfu Building

Early in the morning, with the continuous roar of the machine outside the house, accompanied by the noise of the loudspeaker broadcast, an old man was awakened from his sleep. These noises came from the renovation of Longfu Building and the morning market of Longfu Temple Street. The old man, named Tianyue, lives in an alley in the west lane of Dongsi Longfu Temple Street in Dongcheng District, Beijing, and his bungalow courtyard is only three hundred meters away from longfu building.

Tianyue sat up from the bed, picked up his mobile phone to look at the time, the time is now 6:19 a.m. on Thursday, June 9, 2016, and today is also the first day of the three-day holiday of the Lunar Dragon Boat Festival.

At this time, the sky outside the house was already bright, and through the window, Tianyue could see that there was a layer of cyan haze faintly suspended in the air outside. He shook his head helplessly and got out of bed and went to the bathroom. The bath water temperature is moderate, although a shower makes him feel very comfortable, but the festival for him, not a festival, what festival is the same, because he has been single and unmarried, until the end of the year will be 50 years old.

The Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival are called the four traditional festivals of the Han Chinese people, "duan" is the beginning, the initial meaning, the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Shunyang is on the top. The Dragon Boat Festival is a good day to dispel diseases and poisons, and pray for blessings and heirs. The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Tianzhong Festival, adheres to the righteous qi in heaven and earth, and the yang qi is extremely strong, which is the auspicious day of the opening and fortune of Lingbao. What are you going to do on the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival? After washing, Tianyue thought as he returned to the bed in the bedroom.

He did push-ups on his bed and did 40 push-ups in a row. He does a total of 80 to 100 push-ups every morning and evening, practices dumbbells, and jumps rope. His current weight is 65 kilograms, his height is 1.75 meters, his body mass index is 21, and his body is thin. For him, good health became much more important than anything else, especially at his age.

The weather in the morning was sweltering, and Tianyue got out of bed after doing push-ups, opened all the windows for ventilation, and then sat down on a recliner. He picked up two mobile phones, rotated them, and took advantage of the morning to send WeChat messages of Dragon Boat Festival blessings to some friends, including female members of the family marriage and love network who were contacted.

Suddenly, a mobile phone rings and I see that it is his father's call.

"Did you go to see your mother at Sino-Japanese Hospital today?" Father asked.

"I'll go at noon." Tianyue replied.

"You go in the afternoon, your mother has to do kidney dialysis at noon in the morning." Father said.

"Okay, got it." Tianyue finally said.

Hanging up his father's call, Tianyue looked out of the window, looked at the dry and withered bamboo trees in the yard, and began to be in a daze. After he returned to Beijing from Guangdong in 2012, his parents moved from the bungalow yard in Dongsi Longfusi Street to the building in the south of Balizhuang, Chaoyang North Road, where he himself lived. He planted some bamboo in a three- or four-square-meter flower pond in the yard.

Before the founding of new China, this bungalow yard was the land bought by Tianyue's grandfather Xing Shoushan and built it himself. After the founding of New China, several rooms in the courtyard became public houses, and the land became the land of the state, and the remaining house area was still 210 square meters. Because Tianyue's father had five brothers and sisters in his generation, but some died, some were in other places, some emigrated abroad, and those in Beijing also went to live in buildings, so the management of the Dongsi bungalow where he lived, including repair, maintenance and renovation, and other chores were transferred from Tianyue's parents to Tianyue's head.

Although the current situation of this courtyard is not as dilapidated as the large miscellaneous courtyard of a nearby family, it is by no means the pleasant and noble situation of the old Beijing courtyard written by the writer Lao She, "the pomegranate tree of the fish tank of the canopy, the fat dog and the fat head", although Tianyue's father did grow up in that environment when he was young.

In the eyes of many neighbors, even in the eyes of Tianyue's parents, they feel that the bungalows in this area will have to be demolished sooner or later. But in the years since Tianyue returned to Beijing, despite repeated opposition from his father, although his father did not think it was necessary to spend money on decoration, Tianyue himself still spent a lot of money to decorate the house he lived in from upstairs to downstairs, from inside to outside, from the roof to the semi-underground. In this way, the living conditions can be much better than before, and the bungalows where other neighbors live are much better. Especially after he rented out the semi-basement of his home, not only did he make full use of the semi-basement so that it would not be abandoned, but he could also get some rent income every month. This alone has caused many neighbors around to develop pink eye.

However, when others ask what the purpose of Tianyue decoration is, he will be mentally prepared to explain the purpose of decoration clearly. He would say that there were three purposes: first, to use it to get married and live on his own in the future; second, once the parents were old and their legs and feet were not convenient, they would be taken back to the Dongsi Bungalow to live here, guarding the hospital, close to Jingshan Park, Beihai Park and Houhai; third, if the Dongsi bungalows were not demolished, they would get married and have children in the future, so that the children could attend kindergartens and primary schools in the city center. In the future, you can even use this bungalow to make a family hotel, a tea house or café in an alley, and so on.

Despite Tianyue's good wishes and constant efforts, in the years since he returned to Beijing, among the single ladies he has interacted with, whether they are Beijing natives or Beibu, almost no lady is willing to consider getting married and living in a bungalow. In their eyes, living in a bungalow either means a low social status, or all life is inconvenient, and so on. Of course, there seems to be another judgment, that is, they have no eye for Tianyue and think that Tianyue's life is a failure.

"Sudden", the ringtone of mobile phone WeChat! Tianyue picked up the mobile phone and looked at it, and found that a total of more than ten WeChat messages were received, including a WeChat, which was replied to by a female member of the family named "Xin". Subsequently, Tianyue communicated with each other by voice.

Xin said, "You're early enough." ”

"Yes." Tianyue replied, and then asked Xin, "Why didn't you sleep lazily?" ”

"Well, I usually have a regular schedule, from ten o'clock in the evening to eight o'clock in the morning the next day, usually sleep for no less than eight hours, and wake up naturally in the morning." Xin replied.

"Nice! Are your parents pushing you for personal issues? Tianyue asked.

"No, parents have long been used to it."